Speed Up is an Italian

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team and constructor founded in 2010 and based in

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, Italy. In 2012 the company started building its own branded chassis under the Speed Up Factory name. Beginning with the 2021 season, the company re-branded their factory-entered machines under the name Boscoscuro to better differentiate between their own racing team and chassis kits supplied to other teams.

History

The team was founded in 2010 by the former Grand Prix motorcyclist

Luca Boscoscuro Luca Boscoscuro (born 27 December 1971 in Schio) is an Italian former road racer at Grand Prix level. He was the 1995 250 cc European Champion. His best year in the world championships was in 1996, when he finished in tenth place in the 25 ...

and entered the newly formed

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class of the world championship. In the team's first year they achieved three wins with their S10 motorcycle, based on a

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M210 frame, ridden by

Andrea Iannone Andrea Iannone (born 9 August 1989) is an Italian professional motorcycle racer who competed in the MotoGP World Championship from 2013 to 2019. Iannone is a race winner in MotoGP, Moto2 and 125 cc World Championships. After winning 4 race ...

and

Gábor Talmácsi Gábor Talmácsi (born 28 May 1981 in Budapest, Hungary) is a Hungarian former professional motorcycle racer. He was the 2007 125cc World Champion, and he is the first and only Hungarian to win a road racing World Championship. He has a young ...

. In 2011 the Speed Up team elected to enter an FTR M211 chassis ridden by

Pol Espargaró Pol Espargaró Villà (born 10 June 1991) is a Spanish Grand Prix motorcycle racer who for 2023 will ride in the MotoGP class for the newly named GasGas Factory Racing team, a development of Tech3. He previously spent two years with Repsol Hond ...

and

Valentin Debise Valentin Debise (born 12 February 1992) is a French motorcycle racer. He currently competes in the MotoAmerica Supersport Championship riding a Suzuki GSX-R600, and is a former winner of the French 125GP Championship, in 2008. He has also compe ...

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Speed Up started building its own chassis named the S12. Boscoscuro entered into partnership with Andrea Iannone's Speed Master team supplying him with the new frames and fielding a bike for

Mike Di Meglio Mike Di Meglio (born 17 January 1988) is a French Grand Prix motorcycle road racer and three-time world champion claiming the 2008 125cc title,

; the best results were achieved by Iannone thanks to two victories. During the season, the QMMF Racing Team switched from Moriwaki to Speed Up frames. In

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saw the debut of the SF13 chassis, fielded by three teams – Forward Racing, AGR and QMMF Racing Team, no factory team raced this year, achieving only a podium with

Simone Corsi Simone Corsi (born 24 April 1987) is an Italian former Grand Prix motorcycle racer. Born in Rome, Corsi has been racing in motorcycle world championships for nearly 20 years, amassing over 300 races, 4th all-time, behind only Valentino Rossi, ...

as a best result. In

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Speed Up debuted the new SF14 frame, entering its own team with

Sam Lowes Samuel Deane Lowes (born 14 September 1990) is a British motorcycle racer competing in the Moto2 World Championship aboard a Kalex since 2019, and is part of the ELF Marc VDS Racing Team. Lowes' 2022 season ended early, being unable to race ...

and again supplying the QMMF Racing Team, who won the

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with Anthony West. In

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followed a similar pattern with

and Anthony West remaining with their respective teams; West being joined in the QMMF team by

Julián Simón Julián Simón Sesmero (born 3 April 1987) is a Spanish motorcycle racer. He is best known for winning the 2009 125cc World Championship. Career 125cc World Championship Born in Villacañas, Toledo, Spain, Simón began his racing career rac ...

. Lowes finished the season as the only non-

Kalex Kalex Engineering is a German specialty engineering company that designs, manufactures and sells high-performance parts for motorcycles. Kalex Engineering was founded in 2008 in the Bavarian city of Bobingen, Germany by Klaus Hirsekorn and Al ...

rider in the top 14 of the final championship standings, in 4th place in the year-end table, having won at the

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. In 2016 saw Speed Up's own team line up with a new rider in

, with Lowes having left to join

Gresini Racing Gresini Racing is a motorcycle racing team competing in the MotoGP World Championship under the name Gresini Racing MotoGP as a Ducati satellite team, in the Moto2 World Championship as Team Gresini Moto2, and the MotoE World Cup as Felo Gresini ...

in 2016 with a following MotoGP contract for 2017. The QMMF team raced with West and Simón. In

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, with a view to differentiating the racing team from the chassis production, the motorcycle prototype frames produced were renamed under the brand Boscoscuro.'We wanted to give the bike an identity independent of the team' – Luca Boscoscuro
motorcyclesports.net, January 2022. Retrieved 8 April 2022

Results

;Notes * Season still in progress.

References

External links

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